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INVITE: How can we strengthen community resilience and respond to the growing public health challenges associated with climate change?​

Join ACMS' Dr Lucy Khofi:

Date: Friday, 13 November 2026
Time: 10:30–11:30 AM (South African Time)
Platform: Zoom: https://t.co/iuUpOX3DlD

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Recap: Research after the Pandemic.

Blessing Mukuruva (ACMS, Wits) presented "Arriving After the Emergency," exploring how the pandemic is kept in the body. Joined by Dr. Praveer Patel on humanising research & Wayne Renkin on institutional forgetting.

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NEW ARTICLE: Urban Displacement

Maple, Walker, Vanyoro & Vearey examine how global, national & local protection mechanisms intersect, and how the "self-reliant refugee" narrative justifies the withdrawal of support.

READ: https://t.co/pA1S8trL1J

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WATCH: Moyo Babalola shares her takeaways from the 2026 Spring School, while Prof. Jo Vearey (ACMS, Wits) unpacks the migration-health-policy nexus and the work of bridging evidence to action.

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Join us online today at 14:00! ACMS PhD Candidate Blessing Mukuruva presents on "Arriving After the Emergency" at Panel 3: Research after the Pandemic.

Join: https://t.co/he713uv2LX
Meeting ID: 323 773 721 667 529
Passcode: NL9QA9Um

Study at ACMS: https://t.co/XSSAycLCKc

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Four days of learning, exchange, and collaboration brought us back to the question that opened our hybrid Spring School: Health is political, migration is political- where to next?

https://t.co/s1a4vuKenH

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Recap: Understanding Xenophobia in Africa – History, Identity, Migration, and the Path to Healing

ACMS‘ Associate Professor and Co-Director, Jo Vearey, joined a panel of experts to unpack the complex drivers of xenophobia across the continent: https://t.co/J2AQv1TEuS

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Speakers and participants joined us at Wits Business School and online yesterday for our hybrid Policy Dialogue: Migration, Urbanisation and People’s Health: Responding to Urban Crises through Evidence, Policy and Practice.

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What lies beneath xenophobia in Africa: fear, history, inequality, identity, or something deeper?

Join ACMS‘ Associate Professor and Co-Director, Jo Vearey, TONIGHT with Voice1Africa.

Time: 19:00 https://t.co/BP9BsaLGtw

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Day 2 | Speakers and participants joined us yesterday in person and online for the second day of our hybrid Spring School, exploring a central question:

How can universal health coverage be meaningful for people on the move?

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WATCH - Dr. Langelihle Mlotshwa (Senior Researcher at the ACMS) provides insight into today's discussions at the 2026 Spring School.

Migration, Urbanisation and People's Health: Responding to Urban Crises through Evidence, Policy and Practice.

https://t.co/wQMN31nspa

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Day 1 | 2026 Spring School on Researching Migration and Health in Africa

Yesterday, speakers and participants joined us in person and online for the first day of our hybrid 2026 Spring School on Researching Migration and Health in Africa.

https://t.co/LcvMsDonnK

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WATCH - Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi says civil society groups engaging the government have stressed they are not opposed to legal migration, but want stronger action against illegal immigration.

Prof Landau unpacks the government's approach: https://t.co/K6hYXvHxYE

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Welcome to a week of knowledge sharing at the 2026 Spring School & Policy Dialogue: Researching Migration & Health.

To mark the beginning of our time together, please take a moment to watch a short welcome video from ACMS' Jo Vearey: https://t.co/pUj0SZb71z

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2025 saw spikes in health xenophobia. 2026 is seeing a rise in violence.

New publication from ACMS' Xenowatch. Available here: https://t.co/aNfFNliCQ8

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NEW PUBLICATION: What does the data tell us about xenophobic discrimination in South Africa between 2025 and June 2026?

Shifting from health xenophobia in 2025 to physical violence in 2026. Gauteng & KZN hit hardest: https://t.co/dCn6twVcbg

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NEW PUBLICATION: What does the data tell us about xenophobic discrimination in South Africa between 2025 and June 2026?

Shifting from health xenophobia in 2025 to physical violence in 2026. Gauteng & KZN hit hardest: https://t.co/dCn6twVcbg

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Join the 2026 Spring School & Policy Dialogue on Researching Migration & Health

🗓️ 27-30 Oct | Hybrid (Wits & Online)
📍 Policy Dialogue: 29 Oct

🔗 Spring School Zoom: https://t.co/fJYUtJONpa
🔗 Policy Dialogue Zoom: https://t.co/BCYjAuR6uR

Queries: [email protected]

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NEW PUBLICATION: Examining the ways in which structural violence, austerity, and health governance shape migrant exclusion in public healthcare in South Africa

Available here: https://t.co/eyJcxpVGyG

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EXTENDED: Postgraduate Applications Closing 30 November 2026

Applications: https://t.co/KS3wmXgiZu

More Info: [email protected]
Study Options: Full-time or part-time options available.
Funding: Limited funding is available for early applicants.

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📰NEWS: Prof. @lorenlandau tells @TimesLIVE how 30 June has passed & left damage: “People are displaced, stuck at borders, stuck in these centres in Durban, people whose property has been looted or destroyed & they need an immediate humanitarian response.” https://t.co/fvHijXOWjz